<p>The invention features methods of, and systems for generating a report that depends on data stored in a plurality of remote workstations. The methods and systems involve at least some of the following steps: sending a request from a master workstation to the remote workstations specifying a group name and a named function; identifying data stored within each of the remote workstations belonging to a group specified by the group name; operating on the identified data within each of the remote workstations according to an algorithm specified by the named function to generate an output for each remote workstation; returning the output from each remote workstation to the master workstation; and consolidating the outputs at the master workstations to generate the report.</p>
申请公布号
EP0921656(A2)
申请公布日期
1999.06.09
申请号
EP19980308073
申请日期
1998.10.05
申请人
CONCORD COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
发明人
BOOMAN, GORDON A.;DIEBBOLL, ROBERT S.;ENGEL, FERDINAND;HAMLIN, ARTHUR P.;MCKELLAR, STEPHEN F.